"There is something instinctive about the moment you choose to ‘take’ a photograph,” he once explained. “It’s not the result of thought or reflection. The strength of the composition is always born of the instant of the decision. It reminds me of archery. There is the tension of the bow and the free flight of the arrow." — Edouard Boubat Édouard Boubat (Sept. 13, 1923, Paris, France-June 30, 1999, Paris); well-known French art photographer. Boubat worked as a photo engraver before he began taking photographs in 1946. He sought to make photographs that were a celebration of life. He worked as a freelance photojournalist on contract to the magazine "Réalités" in the 1950s and 1960s and traveled widely throughout his career. His work in the collections of numerous museums and institutions around the world. (http://www.vintageworks.net/exhibit/detail.php/279/1/0/0/23648) Édouard Boubat (French: [buba]; 1923–1999); French photojournalist and art photographer. Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the École Estienne and worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer. In 1943 he was subjected to service du travail obligatoire, forced labour of French people in Nazi Germany, and witnessed the horrors of World War II. He took his first photograph after the war in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. He travelled the world for the French magazine Réalités, where his colleague was Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, and later worked as a freelance photographer. French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "peace correspondent" as he was humanist, apolitical and photographed uplifting subjects. His son Bernard Boubat is also a photographer. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Boubat) undefined

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